陈启南先生曾多次应聘为全国性的美术展览和雕塑展览的评委，参加全国性的雕塑学术活动。多次应邀参加全国雕塑考察团。赴日、美、欧、俄进行艺术考察和学术交流。创作的中国花鸟画，多次参加国内及日本、菲律宾文化交流展。

八十年代创作的雕塑作品：《转战途中》、《蕾蕾》、《唐玄奘法师》及《春潮》、《春晓》等圆雕曾多次参加全国、省美展及国外艺术展。

在吸收西方现代艺术的同时，坚定为弘扬和继承中国传统艺术走开创自己艺术创作之路，致力于城雕的研究和创作。九十年代以来创作设计的城市雕塑《林则徐》、乐神《葛天氏》、《司马迁纪念像》、《神医扁鹊》、《炎帝》、《欧阳海烈士纪念像》、神话传说《女娲补天》、民族英雄《韩世宗纪念像》等城雕先后在新疆、河南、陕西、湖南等地落成。

 生于1930年12月，1949年参加工作，早年就读于西北艺术学院美术

1956年深造于中央美术学院雕塑研究班。

1976年曾参加毛主席纪念堂的雕塑创作，获先进工作者称号，

80年代以来雕塑作品有：《转战途中》圆雕、《蕾蕾》圆雕、《唐玄奘法师》像及《春潮》、《春晓》圆雕等被评为全国美展优秀作品，并曾在菲律宾、台湾展出，由日本画家私人收藏。

1991年执行中菲文化协定，出访菲律宾，并在菲律宾国立大学、雅典诺大学等讲学，受到各界人士的高度评价

1997年与著名雕塑家马改户先生合作设计，在祖国南疆海南省三亚市海边建成的，开创祖国南疆勋业的汉代两伏波将军（西汉路博德、东汉马援）骑马铜像和高13米的一对纪念铜柱，具有宏大的规模、气势和很高的艺术水平。

2000年在原《唐玄奘法师》设计方案的基础上，加强了作品的纪念性与环境的接合，为西安在雁塔南广场完成了《玄奘法师》纪念像的设计与制作（青铜铸造、高五米）。为古城西安增添新的景点，受到群众欢迎。

2005年在原设计创构想的基础上和王天任、张叔瀛三位主创的上篇《唐诗魂》、下篇《唐诗峡》，在西安大唐芙蓉园落成：《唐诗魂》高 16 米、长、宽各约四十米，占地一千六百平方米，使用石材两千多立方米。凿刻出最具代表性的唐代诗人二十五个和流传千古的诗歌名篇六十余首。《唐诗峡》总长为120米，高度为4、5米至7米，人物形象20个， 13组故事情景，与壁刻唐诗名篇57首穿插互映。该雕塑群随山就势、虚实相生，以耸立的山峰造型为象征，表现唐诗在唐代文化中的崇高地位，同时运用中国园林，雕塑、书法、印章等多种传统艺术形式，以现代的审美意识，取舍创新，融纪念性、主题性、情节性、观赏性为一体的大型景观艺术。

2013年4月4日上午8时25分在陕西省人民医院逝世，享年83岁。

为了追忆陈启南先生的艺术人生，2013年4月27日在西安举行了以“春风化雨、踵事增华”为主题的陈启南师生作品联袂展开展。本次展览是纪念陈先生的系列活动之一，总共展览除约50多件陈先生师生创作的艺术作品，其中不乏陈先生生前的代表作《转战途中》及《玄奘法师》等等。据主办方西安美院介绍，陈启南先生的作品蕴含着浓郁的民族特色和西北地域风貌，称赞他的作品是“运用了中国语言的雕塑将艺术灵感就扎根于陕西这片土地。”

 Mr. Chen Qinan has been appointed as a judge of national art exhibitions and sculpture exhibitions for many times and participated in national sculpture academic activities. He has been invited to participate in the National Sculpture inspection delegation many times. He went to Japan, the United States, Europe and Russia for artistic investigation and academic exchanges. He has created Chinese flower and bird paintings and participated in many cultural exchanges exhibitions in China, Japan and the Philippines.

Sculpture works created in the 1980s: On the way to war, Leilei, Master Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty, Spring Tide, Spring Dawn and other round sculptures have participated in national and provincial art exhibitions and foreign art exhibitions for many times.

While absorbing western modern art, we are firmly committed to the research and creation of city sculpture in order to carry forward and inherit Chinese traditional art and create our own way of artistic creation. Urban sculptures such as Lin Zexu, Le Shen Ge Tian Shi, Sima Qian Memorial, Bian Que, Yan Di, Ouyang Sea Martyr Memorial, Nuwa Butian and Han Shizong Memorial, which have been created and designed since the 1990s, have successively been in Xinjiang, Henan, Shaanxi and other cities. Hunan and other places were completed.

Born in December 1930 and working in 1949, he studied fine arts in Northwest Academy of Art in his early years.

In 1956, he graduated from the sculpture research class of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.

In 1976, he participated in the sculpture creation of Chairman Mao Memorial Hall and won the title of advanced worker.

Since the 1980s, sculptures such as the round sculptures of "On the Way to Turn the War", "Leilei", "Master Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty" and "Spring Tide" and "Spring Dawn" have been rated as excellent works in the National Art Exhibition. They have been exhibited in the Philippines and Taiwan, and are privately collected by Japanese painters.

In 1991, he carried out the Sino-Philippine Cultural Agreement, visited the Philippines and gave lectures at Philippine National University and Atheno University, which was highly praised by people from all walks of life.

In 1997, he cooperated with the famous sculptor Mr. Ma Jianhu to design a bronze statue and a pair of commemorative bronze pillars with a height of 13 meters, which were built on the seashore of Sanya City, Hainan Province, in the southern part of the motherland. The bronze statue of the Han Dynasty's two volvo-bo generals (Lubode of the Western Han Dynasty, Ma Aid of the Eastern Han Dynasty) who initiated the decorative industry in the southern part of

In 2000, on the basis of the original design of Master Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty, the combination of commemoration and environment was strengthened, and the design and production of the memorial image of Master Xuanzang (bronze casting, five meters high) was completed for Xi'an in Yanta South Square. Adding new scenic spots to the ancient city of Xi'an is welcomed by the masses.

In 2005, on the basis of the original design conception, and Wang Tianren and Zhang Shuying's first and second poems, Tang Shi Soul and Tang Shi Gorge, were completed in Furong Garden of the Tang Dynasty in Xi'an: Tang Shi Soul is 16 metres high, 40 metres long and 40 metres wide, covering an area of 1,600 square metres and using more than 2,000 cubic metres of stone. Twenty-five of the most representative poets of the Tang Dynasty and more than sixty famous poems which have been circulated for thousands of years have been carved out. The total length of Tang Shixia is 120 meters, and its height is 4, 5 to 7 meters. There are 20 characters and 13 sets of story scenes, which are interlaced with 57 famous Tang Poems Inscribed on the wall. This group of sculptures, symbolized by the shape of towering peaks, represents the lofty status of Tang poetry in Tang Dynasty culture. Meanwhile, it uses many traditional art forms, such as Chinese gardens, sculptures, calligraphy, seals and so on, with modern aesthetic consciousness, chooses and innovates, and integrates commemorative, thematic, plot and ornamental features. Large-scale landscape art as a whole.

He died at 8:25 a.m. on April 4, 2013 at the People's Hospital of Shaanxi Province at the age of 83.

In order to recall Mr. Chen Qinan's artistic life, a joint exhibition of Chen Qinan's works of teachers and students was held in Xi'an on April 27, 2013 with the theme of "Spring Weathers and Rain, Increasing Ancient Events". This exhibition is one of a series of activities to commemorate Mr. Chen. There are more than 50 pieces of artistic works created by Mr. Chen's teachers and students. Among them, Mr. Chen's masterpieces "On the way to war" and "Master Xuanzang" are many. According to the organizer of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, Mr. Chen Qinan's works contain strong national characteristics and northwest regional features. He praised his works as "using Chinese language sculpture to root artistic inspiration in this land of Shaanxi".